Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer. An ethnic Serb born in the Military Frontier (present-day Croatia), he was a subject of the Austrian Empire who later became an American citizen

Nikola Tesla is often called one of history’s most important inventors, one whose discoveries in the field of electricity were way ahead of his time and continue to influence technology today. Despite his accomplishments, however, Tesla died penniless and without the accolades that would he would ultimately earn over a century later.

The “genius who lit the world” is now commemorated with an electrical unit called the Tesla, has a place in the inventor’s hall of fame, streets, statues, and a prestigious engineer’s award in his name, but in life he wasn’t always so successful